Focused assessment
A short engagement to understand the platform, identify the key risks, and produce a clear recommendation on what should happen next.
Services
Move hard-to-change systems forward without disruption
Port60 helps organisations modernise legacy estates, improve cloud and platform delivery, and untangle technical complexity without forcing an all-or-nothing rewrite.
The work is shaped around real delivery problems rather than generic augmentation: understand the estate quickly, reduce uncertainty, and create a practical sequence of changes the organisation can absorb.
What Port60 offers
Get senior technical direction where it changes outcomes
These service lines are designed to solve the problems that usually block progress: unclear architecture, risky modernisation, fragile integration, weak release confidence, and delivery teams that need stronger technical leadership.
Legacy modernisation strategy
Turn ageing estates into a sequence of practical modernisation moves rather than an all-or-nothing rewrite programme.
- Discovery and estate review
- Incremental target-state planning
- Risk-first sequencing
Java and Spring technical leadership
Bring senior engineering direction to enterprise Java platforms that need cleaner structure, stronger services, and better delivery confidence.
- Architecture and codebase guidance
- Service decomposition
- Delivery unblock support
Cloud and platform uplift
Shape better AWS or Azure delivery across hosting, deployment, observability, security, and the engineering workflows around them.
- Migration direction
- Container and platform readiness
- Operational visibility
Integration and service design
Reduce friction between services, teams, and external platforms with clearer APIs, stronger contracts, and less accidental coupling.
- API and orchestration review
- Messaging and event flows
- Safer integration patterns
Delivery recovery
Step into programmes where technical uncertainty or accumulated complexity is slowing progress and help restore momentum.
- Problem diagnosis
- Prioritised recovery plan
- Hands-on team support
Secure and regulated delivery
Support teams working with sensitive data, compliance expectations, and audit-friendly delivery patterns where shortcuts are expensive.
- Authentication and access thinking
- Secure file and document handling
- Pragmatic engineering controls
Engagement shape
Start with the problem, then sequence the change
A good engagement creates clarity quickly, then turns that clarity into a plan, a recovery move, or hands-on leadership where it matters most.
Modernisation roadmap
A structured path from legacy constraints to a more maintainable, cloud-ready, service-oriented future state.
Embedded leadership
Hands-on technical leadership alongside product, delivery, and engineering teams during an active programme.
Targeted problem-solving
A narrower engagement aimed at a specific bottleneck such as integration pain, release instability, platform adoption, or architecture drift.
What good looks like
Buy clarity, momentum, and safer delivery
Most clients are not buying a document. They are buying a route out of technical drag, stronger engineering decisions, and more confidence in how change gets delivered.
- A clearer path out of legacy complexity
- Better alignment between engineering and delivery
- More confidence around cloud and platform decisions
- Improved release safety and maintainability
- Sharper service boundaries and integration patterns
- Senior technical direction without unnecessary overhead
Best fit
Best suited to live platforms that cannot absorb careless change
The strongest fit is not greenfield novelty. It is the organisation with important systems, constrained delivery, technical debt that can no longer be ignored, and a need for credible senior engineering help.
Public sector transformation Insurance and regulated platforms Financial services workflows Licensing and entitlement systems Retail and commercial delivery Java and Spring estates